Sentence examples for fire sweeping from inspiring English sources
One man desperate to save himself from the fire sweeping the upper floors of his building leapt on to a canopy with his son in his embrace.
The fire sweeping through Butte County, which had led to the evacuation of 10,000 people and one death, was 85percentt contained.
He recalls how incendiary bombs sent fire sweeping through the town, killing those in bomb shelters and destroying four out of every five buildings.
On Friday, NHK television showed images of a huge fire sweeping across Kesennuma, a city of more than 70,000 people in the northeast.
Mitt Romney arrives in Iowa on Tuesday for a speech intended to dramatize the impact of the economic downturn, calling the nation's debt a "prairie fire" sweeping across the Midwestern state and the rest of the country.
Now, scientists using data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments on NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites have pieced together a decade-long global tour of the world's fires, from waves of grassland fire sweeping across Africa, "the fire continent," to agricultural fires in Asia and to catastrophic wildfires in the western United States.
As a consequence, these overgrown forests have become tinderboxes that can be destroyed by high-intensity fires sweeping through the crowns.
Extended drought and lightning strikes have kindled fires sweeping through sage brush and forest, prompting President Obama to declare a state of emergency in Washington.
The fires sweeping through Southern California, destroying property and threatening human lives, have also killed at least 54 horses, according to the authorities.
Trees can record centuries of history in their rings – changes in rainfall and temperatures, even evidence of fires sweeping through a region or the climatic impacts of volcanic eruptions.
The head of the conservative today said his group would join forces with black Christians to stem the wave of suspicious fires sweeping black churches in the South and to help the affected congregations raise money to rebuild.
